Aspen is in the national spotlight, with news shows in the works at all major broadcast networks related to the heiress Nancy Pfister murder case. First up is ABC News’ “20/20″ tonight, “Relationships from Hell: A Downhill Slope” at 9 p.m. on Channel 7.

The tabloid-ready tagline: “Who Killed One of Aspen, Colorado’s Most Beloved and Beautiful Free Spirits?”

Deborah Roberts reports, with the first interview with Nancy Styler, a key suspect in the case. Styler was held in jail for three months on first-degree murder charges and related counts. All of the charges were dropped after William Styler told police in June he acted alone. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is serving 20 years in state prison.

Among those interviewed is Denver author Steve Singular, (whose book on Warren Jeffs became a Lifetime movie, “Outlaw Prophet.”) Singular’s next book, “Aspen Confidential: Money, Mystery, Murder in Glamour Gulch” will be published next fall by St. Martin’s Press.

According to the Aspen Daily News, all three networks are following the case closely: “Producers and freelance journalists working for ABC, NBC and CBS were present for many of the court dates involving Dr. William Styler, 66, who confessed to killing Pfister in February, as well as court appearances for the other former defendants, Styler’s wife, Nancy, and longtime valley resident Kathy Carpenter.”

X Games Aspen 2014 launches the winter season at Aspen/Snowmass with live coverage on ESPN and ABC from January 23-26. They’ll offer a combined 16 hours of live, high-def coverage. See the complete schedule.

This is the sport’s 13th year in Aspen.

No Lindsay Vonn on NBC? Here are some alternatives. Among the more than 200 international athletes expected at the X Games are Kelly Clark, Lindsey Jacobellis, Seth Wescott, Kaya Turski, Bobby Brown, David Wise, Mark McMorris and Tucker Hibbert, competing in Snowboard, Ski and Snowmobile. Snowboarder X and Snowmobile Long Jump will return to the X Games Aspen list of disciplines in 2014.

Eek, a mouse! On the grounds of the Aspen Music Festival, a team from National Geographic Channel’s “Diggers” on Sept. 20 unearthed a time capsule containing the mouse from Steve Jobs’ first mass-marketed Lisa computer. The episode will air in early 2014. The time capsule will be turned over to the Aspen Historical Society.

They did it using “original survey coordinates and good old-fashioned math.” And digging.

The full release from National Geographic:

A time capsule containing the mouse from Steve Jobs’ first mass-marketed Lisa computer was uncovered today on the grounds of the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colo. The finding was made by the National Geographic Channel’s Diggers team for an episode of the series that will air early 2014. Buried in 1983 during the now-defunct International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA), the tube was intended to be unearthed in 2000, but due to changes in the landscape, its exact location was unknown — until now.

Working closely with the Aspen Music Festival and School and Harry Teague, one of the original members of the design team that buried the capsule, the Diggers team was able to narrow down the time capsule’s location using original survey coordinates and good old-fashioned math. The capsule was carefully excavated under the supervision of Diggers archaeologist Michael Durkin, and the contents of the capsule will be cataloged and evaluated before being turned over to the Aspen Historical Society.

“When we buried the capsule in 1983 at the IDCA conference titled ‘The Future Is Not What It Used to Be,’ it was scheduled to be unearthed in twenty years. We had no idea it would be thirty before we would finally get around to digging it up,” said Harry Teague. “I’m sure it’s loaded with things of cultural and historic import, but the mouse from one of his new Apple Lisa computers that Steve Jobs threw in at the last minute has to be one of the more iconic items.”

In addition to the Lisa mouse, the contents of the 13-foot-long capsule include a mix of early ’80s relics: an eight-track recording of The Moody Blues, a Sears Roebuck catalog, a June 1983 copy of Vogue Magazine, a Rubik’s Cube and a six-pack of beer. The time capsule was related to the theme of the conference, “The Future Is Not What It Used to Be.” At the conference, before donating the mouse, Jobs addressed the crowd in a speech that many believe predicted some of Apple’s great innovations to come, including the iPad, wireless networking and even the Apple App Store.

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.